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Originally Posted by djsFlames
It's a losing battle any which way you cut it.
How can you expect to occupy and maintain governance over a population that wants you gone.
The only thing they had going for them was when they were targeting military bases/installations only in the initial days.
Now that they're hitting apartments with fire, there's no going back from that. You won't buy allegiance nor submission from those citizens in a million years after killing innocents not inadvertently.
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Exactly.
Russia has already lost. Maybe not right now, maybe in 10 years, but they've lost.
If the West adopts a plan to wean off of Russian oil & gas over the next 5-10 years, Russia is done.
The oligarchs won't like this.
Big question is who really pulls the strings. The oligarchs need oil & gas to continue to flow.
I think we'll wake up one day and hear that Putin committed 'suicide' and that Russia is ready to negotiate.